This year, these 21 athletes made the leap from mere fame (or, in some cases, total anonymity) to iconhood. You’ll like them — which is good, since we’ll all be spending a lot more time with them going forward.

Baltimore’s Adam Jones won the AL Gold Glove over Anaheim’s Mike Trout, starting “snub season” off with a bang. Although defense can be harder to measure with concrete statistics, several metrics have been developed to try to quantify how much a player’s fielding contributes to his team. Here are five inarguable reasons Mike Trout deserved the award.